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[Plain Ian]

Turn 80 –Night 10pm – Martelange – Redange



First thing I did was to move everything off the Martelange – Attert ‘highway’ to allow me to move the 2-12th and 3-12th into ‘reserve’ positions. It called for quite a bit of juggling because of night disruption and HQ command radius checks as most of the units juggled were HQ’s. However I’m used to this type of juggling, its part of the game when playing Bulge. If you can plan 2-3 turns ahead when placing units in positions then this is the game for you. If you can't then just don't leave units on roads unless you have no choice especially if night is coming up.

As usual I’m dancing to Indragnir’s tune and reacting to his moves but I feel I don’t have much of a choice as I’m running out of fresh units down here. Of course with night movement fatigue the 1-12th and 2-12th won’t be fresh after this move but hey ho.

The 25th Cav Sqdn was also moved into a reserve position. Its A quality so I had no fears about moving it...although I have had a few A quality units disrupting when moving at night off road.

In the north I pulled back 19th Tank Bn. Its morale is still good but its losing 1-2 tanks per turn and is down to 22. This leaves the 2-318th to weather the storm. My artillery did its best against the 212th VGD Bn opposite it. I ignored his Pz Lehr tanks here.

70th Tank Bn and the M5 tank coy fired at the 212th units opposite and obtained good result and no losses. 70th tank is down to 14 runners.

North west of Redanges I juggled my units as best as possible to make sure I had retreat paths and here would be no overstacking. The 4th Combat Eng were pulled back leaving the 51st and CCA HQ to take the assault. Both are in TRENCH so hopefully will survive the werfer/artillery deluge.

The 37th Tanks were pulled back. The 51st Arm Inf were moved away to reduce stacking levels.

The 8th and 35th also pulled back but were able to move into the hex occupied by 1-12. (which lost 3 men to opp fire) They both fired and gave a satisfying loss of 40 men to the top 212th Bn opposite them. (35th has 48 tanks and 8th has 42) They should be assault proof. Both are B quality.

My artillery results are shown on map. I had pretty good results despite not having a lot of artillery available. Because his units are in clear each shot takes out 5-6 men.

I checked the map after hitting next turn and saw that I had disrupted 4 of the 6 units shown. Whether this is enough or not we will find out next turn. I suspect the Panzer lehr Panthers may appear next turn anyway. I'll talk or 'haver' as we say here in Scotland about Indragnirs aims in my last map.